Climbers are searching for ways to climb the highest mountains in the world in shorter time periods, including the use of controversial substances.

Patrick Monday became the second Aggie in Texas A&M history to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.

Reaching the summit of Mount Everest was once considered ... cell production enough to cut a 10-week expedition to a seven-day trip. One of the biggest obstacles mountaineers face when climbing ...

An Austrian guide will soon lead trips up the world’s highest peak in less time than an average beach holiday. Is adventure travel going too high, too fast?

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than ...

Sherpas on the Summit of Mount Everest / John Waechter Such new regulations further dampen the romance and purity of climbing, a time when mountaineers went to big mountains, assessed the risks ...

They have scheduled one more day for the descent ... A traffic jam meters away from the summit of Everest. Image: Vanayak Malla At high altitudes, speed is life, as climbers Inaki Ochoa de ...

Nisha Kumari, the first woman from Vadodara to summit Mount Everest, embarked on a cycle expedition from Vadodara to London ...